Word: mother
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Although threatened with consumption it was not known that the disease had so far advanced as to make his end near. He himself was planing his return to Cambridge from the Adirondacks, whither he had gone for a change of air when the fatal turn came. Mr. Hicks's mother who had gone to accompany him back was present and the many new friends he had made while there were ready with sympathy and help...
...Copeland's lecture yesterday consisted entirely of selections from Johnson's Letters and Works, and from Boswell's Life. The selections included Johnson's letters to the Earl of Chesterfield and to his mother on her death bed. Sever 11 was crowded to the doors as heretofore...
...Jehoram, king of Judah, son of Jehoshaphat, and seventh king of the line of David, married Athaliah, daughter to Ahab and Jezebel, who reigned over Israel, famous both of them, but chiefly Jezebel, for their bloody persecutions of the Prophets. Athaliah, no less impious than her mother, soon drew her husband to idolatry, and even caused to be built in Jerusalem a temple to Baal, which was the god of the country of Tyre and Sidon, where Jezebel was born. Jehoram, after having seen all the princes his children, with the single exception of Ahaziah, perish by the hands...
Athalie hitherto ignorant of what was afoot now learns of her danger, but she has all the bravery of Jesezebel her mother, calling her litter she instantly comes in person to the temple. Appalled by the scene she finds there, she can only rend her garments and cry, "Treason, Treason," but no one will come to her assistance, her officers desert her. The High Priest pronounces her fate. She is led out beyond the sacred precincts and there slain...
Athalie, widow of Joram, grand-mother of Joas, Miss Louise Cushing...